Block’s last week sees strong Monday performance

Tim Burrowes

August 16, 2011 9:16

Nine’s The Block more than doubled the audience of Ten’s rival reno show The Renovators on Monday night.

The Block was top show of the evening with 1.702 metro viewers, according to preliminary overnight ratings from OzTam.

The Renovators was 18th, with 670,000. It was fourth in its t7.30-8.30pm timeslot, behind 7.30 (693,000) and Australian Story (991,000) on ABC1; Wild & Woolly: An Elephant And His Sheep on Seven (908,000). The Block ran from 7pm to 8pm on Nine. The Big Bang Theory rated 1.103m at 8pm.

Can Of Worms picked up audience slightly for Ten, rating 789,000. On Nine, rescue Special Ops also gained from its stronger lead-in, pulling in 889,000. Body of proof rated 830,000 for Seven

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Tim Burrowes

Tim Burrowes is the publisher of Mumbrella and Unmade. He co-founded Mumbrella in 2008 and sister title Unmade in 2021. He's worked in the UK, Middle East, Asia & Australia and has specialised in writing about the communications world for the last 25 years. He wrote the book Media Unmade, published in 2021, and became the presenter of MediaLand on ABC Radio National in 2025.